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According to a US report recently
claimed that hackers had managed to interfere with two military
satellites, but one expert argues the amount of energy required would be
too great for ordinary hackers.
The hackers took control of the
Landsat-7 and Terra AM-1 satellites for a grand total of 12 minutes and
two minutes respectively.
One might hope that the
communications satellites suspended in orbit above the earth might be
one component of the planet’s technology infrastructure that is safely
out of harm’s way.
But as satellite communications
enthusiast Paul Marsh explained at the London Security B-Sides event in
April, there are reasons to doubt the reports. He spoke about a similar
story, reported in the late 1990s, about hackers supposedly accessing UK
military satellite communications network SkyNet and ‘nudging’ one
satellite out of synch.
Whether Chinese hackers have
that capability now is just one more matter of speculation to add to the
opaque field of cyber wa…

The Romanian police have announced that
several members of the Anonymous Romania group have been arrested.
DIICOT, the Romanian Organized Crime Unit, raided the homes of 12
members, out of the 14 that they believe were part of the group, located
in 10 different cities.

The police claim that the
24-year-old Gabriel Balaneasa was the leader of the group. He used
several nicknames online, such as "lulzcart," "anonsboat," "anonsweb"
and "carman." Balaneasa, a native of Piatra Neamt, formed the group
along with Fabian Gabor and Picos Mihai Emil, the police says (in Romanian).